I just finished For The Roses, another brilliant old series from Julie Garwood, which I bought from used book store. Julie combined the Old West and England to create an incredibly entrancing tale with a caste of unique characters filled with humor and appealing. The idea of this story shows “What family is all about” which there will be moments when we will laugh and cry, and others when the warmth and love captured here will enfold one in its powerful embrace. Julie explores the heart and soul of a family whose love and loyalty will truly inspire. All men characters in this story has their unique qualities which are wisdom, compassion, resourcefulness, orneriness, protective, loving, bizarre with full of sense of humor, intelligence, tremendous capacity to love… etc. And they used those qualities to protect their family members.
In this story, Julie definitely brings out the quality of being a man.
The story started from four urchin boys, Adam, Douglas, Cole and Travis, found an abandoned baby girl in a basket in a NYC alley, named Mary Rose, headed to West to raise the baby to a lady, and formed the wonderful and wacky family, Claybornes. Then Mary Rose’s identity came to call for her with a gentleman, Harrison, who made his effort in searching for his employer’s long-lost daughter, Lady Victoria. Mary Rose figured that if she didn't interfere, this handsome Englishman would get himself killed, so she took him home to her ranch. Soon enough they possessed a deep and desperate love for each other and became husband and wife before Harrison revealed a secret about her true identity as Lord Elliot’s daughter and proved Claybornes that he is fast with a gun, quick with his fists and he is an attorney.
After knowing the true, she decided to go to England paying his father a visit, but her soul hungered for the freedom of the American West. Her relatives in England including his father wanted to change her to the picture of a proper Lady and tried to make the best for her better than getting to know her real or understand her true feeling. She found it is hard to accustom with the difference, especially the deal with all the disciplines and the rules which English well-richer must obey in order to be a proper Lady. At last, they could sort thing out after having her father understand the real of her when she left him back to West without letting anyone know. And a runaway slave Adam, the eldest of Claybornes also found his freedom from accusing of being a murderer by having Harrison as his attorney and their family's support.
After reading this story, I have to have my eyes break for another long while. Lolzzz
Anyways, I love every scenes of when Claybornes family was at their supper table. Those arguments and teasing one another bring out the blissful moment of the family.
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Btw, Harrison reminded me of My Mr. Perfect. lolz
2 comments:
OH dear, the book sounds very nice. :)
Who's your Mr. Perfect, huh? :) hee.hee.
Yes. it's very nice story.
My uncle ta. lol
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